Hansen’s Sno-Bliz, New Orleans

The location is run by Ashley Hansen, the granddaughter of the original owner, Ernest Hansen.

Hansen’s serves more than 40 house-made flavors and makes its own line of syrups, sweetened with cane sugar.

These sno-balls are served with round tops and can be customized with just about any flavor or additive you can imagine.

Popular flavors include the Bananas Foster Sno-ball and the Senior Atomic Sno-ball, which contains ice, flavored syrup, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, fresh strawberry or pineapple puree, a bit of marshmallow sauce and is topped with a cherry.

This classic sno-ball stand is known for its snow-like ice, and although you’re almost guaranteed to wait in line for a treat from Hansen’s, you’ll likely spend your time socializing with locals and find it was well worth the wait.

For more information about Hansen’s, visit their website at snobliz.com.

The Crawfish Boss, Lafayette

Hunter and Parker Lapoint are the pair of brothers who own and operate The Crawfish Boss in Lafayette.

The stand started off as a summertime endeavor that grew to a full-fledged business, currently located off Ambassador Caffery, after 29-year-old Parker was laid off from his oilfield job.

The Crawfish Boss serves both sno-balls and crawfish, and popular flavors include the Lotus Strawberry Cheesecake and the Chantilly, a wedding cake flavor with blueberries, strawberries, whipped cream and cheesecake in the middle, which can be customized with other fruits, including blueberry, blackberry, raspberry and banana.

Their simple syrup is made from scratch, and all the fruit is fresh and stored in their walk-in cooler.

The strawberries are sourced from within the state from a family that grows them in Ponchatoula.

SnoMan Snoballs prides itself on its extra soft ice, frozen at super cold temperatures and their house made simple syrups, which are used as the base for every snowball.(Photo11: COURTESY Jeff Gresse)

SnoMan Snoballs, Baton Rouge

This Baton Rouge snowball stand has three locations because locals just can’t seem to get enough of them.

The business is owned and operated by 29-year-old Jeff Gresse, who opened the stand to provide a consistent sno-ball experience to the area.

“I was 19 when I moved here from New Orleans, and I noticed there were a lot of sno-ball stands that would close down if the weather wasn’t nice enough," Gresse said. "I decided to open a stand where you could get a sno-ball anytime you wanted and have a good experience.”

Come rain or shine, SnoMan Snoballs is open from noon to 8 p.m. daily from Feb. 1 to Oct. 31.

The stand is one of the first in Louisiana to serve Dippin’ Dots filled snowballs, and some of its signature flavors include Snoman’s Cream — which tastes like a petit-four cake — Blueberry Cheesecake, Polar Punch, Wedding Cake and sno-balls stuffed with New York-style cheesecake.

The stand prides itself on having extra-soft ice, frozen at super cold temperatures, and house made simple syrups, which are used as the base for every sno-ball.